Name: Germán Póo-Caamaño Mail: [email protected] Nick: gpoo Blog: http://blogs.gnome.org/~gpoo/ http://calcifer.org/blog/ (for Spanish speakers) Affiliation: None
Summary
I am a contributor since 2000 and I am running for re-election
for the Foundation Board because I am confident there is plenty
of room where I can help to GNOME and its community, as in the
two previous years, bringing a different perspective and an
independent voice.
My involvement in GNOME
I have been involved in GNOME since the beginning of the current
century, and I have been working with Unix since 1991 and Linux
since 1995.
I have attended GUADEC since 2002. I also have attended to other
GNOME events, such as GUADEC-ES (Hispanic Guadec), Forum do
GNOME (Brazil), GNOME Day (Chile), Involucrate (Peru).
When I was young I was coordinator of Spanish translation team
and I wrote gnome-nettool. Since then, I helped here and
there.
Since July 2009, I have served to the board as treasure.
Promotion of GNOME and Free Software
I have spent a lot of my spare time promoting GNOME and FLOSS in
conferences, I have given more than 60 talks on GNOME and
related topics.
I have been involved in local communities since its beginnings,
such as GNOME Hispano and GNOME Chile. I founded and organized
the biggest Linux (as the kernel) conference in Chile, but also
I organized other events related with Free Software and GNOME.
I have helped and encouraged several developers to get involved
in GNOME.
I feel I am accessible to many people of our community, which in
some way or another, I can help to get their ideas discussed openly
in the board.
Motivations:
I think I have had an acceptable role as director in my
two terms where I have served as treasure. Since I started,
I have worked in improving the way the financial information is
presented in order to take better decisions based in promptly
and good quality information. I have promoted to spend GNOME
funds wisely as much as possible.
As the previous year, I think there is plenty of room to improve
in this and other areas and I plan to continue working on this as
treasure or mentoring the future treasure.
On the other hand, we have new challenges we must approach in
order to succeed as platform for developing applications to make
our desktop appealing for third parties, improving our infrastructure
to attract new developers, and so on.
I have had the experience of working in a board with and without
an Executive Director, and I can say there is a difference in
the workload and how many directors can perform, in particular
because directors are volunteers at the end of the day. I think I can
help the new Executive Director productive and getting the best of
the elected directors in order to accomplish our goals as community.
Regards,
--
Germán Póo-Caamaño
http://people.gnome.org/~gpoo/
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